I ate in German 🇩🇪

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**Tips to remember the German word “aß”:**
– Think of “aß” as the German counterpart to “ate.” It sounds somewhat like “ah-ss,” so you might imagine someone eating something really tasty and saying “ahhh,” then followed by “ss” as if they are shushing someone to enjoy the food quietly.
– You can also link the double ‘s’ in “aß” to the idea of “second helpings,” something you might do after you ate the first time.

**Explanations:**
– “Ich aß” is the first-person singular simple past tense (Imperfekt or Präteritum) of “essen,” meaning “to eat” in German.
– It is used less frequently in spoken colloquial German, where the perfect tense is more common (“Ich habe gegessen”). However, it is often seen in narrative texts and literature.

**Other words that mean the same thing:**
– “Ich habe gegessen” (Perfect tense) – This is the more commonly used past tense form in spoken German.

**Different conjugations:**
– Infinitive: essen
– Present tense: ich esse (I eat), du isst (you eat), er/sie/es isst (he/she/it eats), wir essen (we eat), ihr esst (you [plural] eat), sie essen (they eat)
– Simple past: ich aß (I ate), du aßest (you ate), er/sie/es aß (he/she/it ate), wir aßen (we ate), ihr aßt (you [plural] ate), sie aßen (they ate)
– Future tense: ich werde essen (I will eat), du wirst essen, er/sie/es wird essen, wir werden essen, ihr werdet essen, sie werden essen

**Examples of sentences that use “aß”:**
– Als Kind aß ich häufig Schokoladeneis. (As a child, I often ate chocolate ice cream.)
– Gestern aß ich zum Mittag eine große Pizza. (Yesterday, I ate a large pizza for lunch.)
– Sie erzählte mir, dass sie früher nie Fisch aß. (She told me that she never used to eat fish.)
– Bevor ich Vegetarier wurde, aß ich regelmäßig Fleisch. (Before I became a vegetarian, I used to eat meat regularly.)

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